A road map for addressing and resolving the debate surrounding Confederate monuments in the United StatesIn recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the American South.
How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct by its own hand.
An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project.
A complete, practical guide to managing healthcare facility construction projectsFilled with best practices and the latest industry trends, Construction Management of Healthcare Projects describes the unique construction requirements of hospitals, including building components, specialized functions, codes, and regulations.
The eighth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Government Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise project designers, engineers, security specialists, managers, building and grounds superintendents, and/or supervisors and responsible-managers-in-charge.
This book examines what seems to be the basic challenge in neuroscience today: understanding how experience generated by the human brain is related to the physical world we live in.
This monograph, now in its 2nd edition with 31 new chapters and significant updates, is the first book of its kind written specifically for graduate students and clinicians.
Despite the critical importance of the cerebellum in brain function, the scientific community still lacks effective treatments for most cerebellar ataxias.
Despite the critical importance of the cerebellum in brain function, the scientific community still lacks effective treatments for most cerebellar ataxias.
Son innumerables los ejemplos de fincas destruidas en la ciudad de Guadalajara; pero también al interior del estado de Jalisco se dio este grave proceso que implicó la desaparición de importantes haciendas como la de Cuisillos, El Cabezón, Los Cedros, Atequiza, San Isidro Mazatepec, Buenavista, así como fábricas de hilados, papel, tabaco y espacios industriales.
Por desgracia, una de las ciudades coloniales de México que mayor devastación ha sufrido sobre su patrimonio histórico y cultural, es Guadalajara,capital del estado de Jalisco.
Por desgracia, una de las ciudades coloniales de México que mayor devastación ha sufrido sobre su patrimonio histórico y cultural, es la de Guadalajara, capital del estado de Jalisco.
Por desgracia, una de las ciudades coloniales de México que mayor devastación ha sufrido sobre su patrimonio histórico y cultural, es Guadalajara,capital del estado de Jalisco.
Campus Oriente, sede de la Facultad de Artes y del Instituto de Estética, es un ejemplo de patrimonio cultural vivo por su uso universitario, la conservación de sus espacios y, sobre todo, por sus intervenciones contemporáneas que demuestran atención material y sensibilidad hacia las estructuras preexistentes.
As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a masterwork of Thomas Jefferson, the "e;Academical Village"e; at the heart of the University of Virginia has long attracted the attention of visitors and scholars alike.
Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi-the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex-tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.
Bridging Divides offers a first-hand account of the origins of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign devoted to leading-edge research in the physical sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior, cognition, and neuroscience.
Written from the perspective of industrial users, this is the only book that describes how to install an effective firewater pumping system in a pragmatic and budget-conscious way rather than with purely the regulatory framework in mind.
Energy Conservation in the Design of Multi-Storey Buildings documents the papers presented at an International Symposium held at The University of Sydney, 1-3 June 1983, sponsored by The University of Sydney, the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, and the Institution of Engineers Australia.
Of all Britain's great archaeological monuments the Iron Age hillforts have arguably had the most profound impact on the landscape, if only because there are so many; yet we know very little about them.
After years of neurohype and a neuroskeptic backlash, this book provides a systematic analysis of the contributions to self-understanding cognitive neuroscience (CNS) and philosophy can make.
The book comprises biographical notes, of about 1000 words each, with a portrait photo, of 90 influential figures of the famous prewar Viennese school of neuropsychiatry, appearing together for the first time in a single volume.
This book is an exploration of the integration-differentiation dynamics that result in a drive, or impulse, toward human sociality, arguing that our need to connect with other people is as fundamental as our need for food and shelter.
This book is the result of extensive archival research conducted on the Collection "e;Silvano Arieti Papers"e; held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.